The Gettysburg Address Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we
are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and
so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should
do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
ougnt nere have thus tar so nobly advanced. tts rather tor us to be here dedicated to the
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that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth
of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish
from the carth.
From the Chicago Times
"Readers will not have failed to observe the exceeding bad taste which characterized the
remarks of the President... The cheek of every American must tingle with shamens he tesd
the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent
foreigners as the President of the United States."
Write an essay of at least two to three paragraphs analyzing this newspaper remark from the
Chicago Times. Use specific quotations from the Getysburg Address to support or refute the
newspaper's claim. (100 points)